Dr Campbell (she/her) is a poetry scholar specialising in twentieth and twenty-first century poetics. Her teaching and research interests fall roughly into three broad categories: poetry and poetics; women’s writing and queer studies; and American literature. She is also interested in the relationship between poetry and visual art; approaches to life writing; the manifesto and ars poetica; and the poetics of failure. She has written most recently on Frank O’Hara and Eileen Myles.

In 2023 she was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for a capacious project of recovery on the American poet and playwright V. R. ‘Bunny’ Lang. In 2024 she brought Lang’s poetry back into print in The Miraculous Season: The Selected Poems of V. R. ‘Bunny’ Lang; this was published by Carcanet in the UK and was the Poetry Society’s Special Commendation for Spring 2024. A North American edition is forthcoming in 2026 with NYRB. Alongside her continued work on the poets of the New York School and a project on the poetics of failure, she is currently at work on a critical biography of Lang.

She is Co-Director of the Network for New York School Studies, alongside Dr Nick Sturm (University of Iowa), and was the 2023/2024 Joan Nordell Visiting Fellow at the Houghton Library, Harvard. She completed her PhD in 2020 at St Andrews (with a thesis awarded the 2021 Samuel Rutherford Prize), and prior to that received an MPhil in Literatures of the Americas from Trinity College Dublin in 2015 and an MA (Hons) in English from St Andrews in 2014.

She is also a poet and writer, and the author of Pothos (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), a memoir-ish lyric essay on grief and houseplants.